The Narrative Art of William Golding in Darkness Visible

Abstract

The language and style of Golding’s novels has often been praised for its intensity, and poetic qualities. His language is generally plain and functional, with straight forward English that will be as intelligible to an educated adolescent as to a sophisticated adult. The novel “Darkness Visible” is primarily a study of evil. The novel is like a dramatized form of Revelation with the confused and blighted Matty serving as the voice of the prophet. It is a fast moving narrative and contains a wide variety of sentence patterns. Further one comes across a limited number of antithetical structures. The novel also displays the typographical details such as italics, abbreviations and capitals. The role of number cannot be ignored in the novel.